Thursday, 27 February 2014

Our game next Tuesday is at Atherton & is a 4BBB Aggregate Stableford sponsored by Kennedys Beta Electrical.

For those who are unsure of the comp, you record the stableford scores of yourself & your partner & add them both together at the end.

If you haven't got a partner we will try & match you up at registration as usual.

Louis Siedle

Special Announcement - Drummond Sponsorship

Katrin Nash at the
Drummond Golf store in Cairns has provided our Association with an
exceptional sponsorship package of $1500 for our 2014 program.

Drummond Golf will
sponsor our 2 day FNQVGA Open commencing 30th June, and our Club
Championships on the 5th and 12th August, plus 2 more tournaments on
the 3rd and 18th November.

In addition to
receiving this sponsorship, the Association also has the opportunity
to earn further product rebates from Drummond based on all Veteran
members' golf sales at the Cairns Drummond Golf Store.

Lifetime membership
at Drummond Golf for our members is a one off joining fee of $10.00. Each new member
will receive a personalised Drummond Club card which is presented for instore purchases and is used to track expenditure for the product
rebate.

If you are already a
current Drummond Club member you will be included in the FNQ Veteran
Golfers Association Club's member tally without paying another
joining fee. You will receive a new member card identifying you as a
member of the FNQVGA. For every 20 new
members to join at the same time our Association will receive a
Fortress Empire Cart Bag valued at $250, PLUS a free $50 appreciation
voucher. These will be used as prizes for future tournaments.

Veteran members will
receive the very best price every time they visit any Drummond Golf
Store, special rate green fees, and “2 for 1” deals at over 100
courses across Australia.

Katrin Nash is a FNQVGA
member and will be playing at Atherton Golf Club on Tuesday 4th
March. She will be happy to explain the benefits to all members on
that day.

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

President's
ReportWelcome
back to all our members after the festive season which I hope they
all enjoyed, but is anyone sick of hot cross buns yet & Easter
not till mid April?

Having
missed our first game of the year at Mareeba because of the wet,72
men & 18
ladies turned up eager
to attack
a
course that
was in
surprisingly
good
condition despite
an early morning 7mm of rain &
greens which were coming along well although slow.However,
despite my warnings I saw a number of groups exploring the drains!
Thick rough in places, no run on the fairways &
hot humid conditions, particularly when the sun came out,
saw scores generally below par even
though preferred lies were in place on the fairways.
Congratulations to the green keeper &
volunteers who I was told had to cope with machinery breakdowns.

Thanks
to Tom Bryce for preparing the board & NTPs for us, to Manager
Phil, to Erica for running the
drinks
drinks cart & to Cazalys
for sponsoring the day.Welcome
to new members Ronald Sylvester of Cairns & Trevor Miller of
Gordonvale. Quite a number of members have renewed & our
membership stands at 125 to date.

Our
next game is at Atherton in
a fortnight,
so fingers crossed for some decent weather a couple of days prior to
it.Louis
Siedle

Friday, 14 February 2014

Our game next Tuesday is at Gordonvale golf club & is a single stableford, sponsored by Cazalys.

I had a game there yesterday & it is wet in places, but nowhere near as bad as Cairns. They had machinery on course mowing but you can expect long rough in places, so stay on the fairways & keep an eye on the ball there, as there are clumps of cut grass lying about which can swallow it. Naturally the drains have long rough & water in them & the greens have been cut long, although I've been told they will be cut a bit shorter for us.

If we have no rain between now & then, the course will have dried out considerably, but keep an eye on the blog. Trevor, their President is going to email me an update on Monday am & if I have anything significant to report I'll post it then.

Monday, 3 February 2014

I've just spoken to Col McDowall who advised they can't get machinery out to do any work on the course because it is so wet. With rain forecast to continue, he suggested we cancel the game tomorrow & possibly reschedule it to the 11 Feb.

I'll wait & see what next week looks like before deciding whether to reschedule it so please watch this space.

Sorry for the short notice and if you know anyone who does not have internet access, please let them know.